Figurative Language for me.
Give me one example of a simile
What is the tone:
His eye was like the eye of a vulture, the eye of one of those terrible birds that watch and wait while an animal dies, and then fall upon the dead body and pull it to pieces to eat it.
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What is the official state sport?.
Rodeo
It might seem crazy what I'm about to say
Sunshine she's here, you can take a break
I'm a hot air balloon that can go to space
With the air, like I don't care baby by the way (come on)
Happy by Pharrel
Give me an example of a metaphor
What is a metaphor?
What is the tone:
"Just keep swimming"
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75% of the world's snickers are made in this city
Waco
This hit, that ice cold
Michelle Pfeiffer, that white gold
This one, for them hood girls
Them good girls, straight masterpieces
Stylin', wildin'
Uptown Funk
Give me an example of personification
List the tone and Mood:
And in all those escapes he could not help being astonished by the beauty of this land that was not his. He hid in its breast, fingered its earth for food, clung to its banks to lap water and tried not to love it. On nights when the sky was personal, weak with the weight of its own stars, he made himself not love it. Its graveyards and its low-lying rivers. Or just a house – solitary under a chinaberry tree; maybe a mule tethered and the light hitting its hide just so. Anything could stir him and he tried hard not to love it.
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Who was the first European to step foot in Texas?
Cabeza de Vaca
When your legs don't work like they used to before
And I can't sweep you off of your feet
Will your mouth still remember the taste of my love
Will your eyes still smile from your cheeks
Thinking Out loud by Ed Sheeran
Create a sentence that has alliteration.
What is the tone:
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…”
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the anniversary of the day when the Emancipation Proclamation was finally announced publicly to the citizens of Texas.
Juneteenth
But you didn't have to cut me off
Make out like it never happened and that we were nothing
And I don't even need your love
But you treat me like a stranger and that feels so rough
Somebody that I used to know by Gotye
Accurately use an idiom in a sentence.
What is the tone and mood
“But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.”
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The name of the plateau in west central Texas is the top sheep growing area in the country.
Edwards Plateau
Tengo que bailar contigo hoy
Vi que tu mirada ya estaba llamándome
Muéstrame el camino que yo voy (Oh)
Despacito by Luis Fonsi